I have been lazy lately with keeping the page up to date. No doubt not due to lack of desire, time has been at a premium as of late.
Though the summer of 2012 seems to have been pretty productive. Enjoy the pictures from the sessions.

With the winter setting in there was finally time to sit on and review the files from the last few years. After several days the final selection was made as same pictures started repeatedly showing up in my review process. I like to think of this collection as my best attempt at what I enjoy in photography, hope you like it too.

Samyang, thank you. This $290 8mm fisheye lens renders beautiful panorama pictures in a few shots, I do 6 portrait orientated around, one zenith and nadir on Nodal Ninja head. Since I’m using this lens on Canon 5D I needed to shave the lens hood, but it is not a big deal to do this. After the “surgery” it allows you to get nice shot on the full frame sensor. While the lens has no electronic contacts and is 100% manual I don’t find this one bit a problem for panorama pictures. Just set the aperture at f 11 and focus at 2-3 meters: everything gets a good depth of field. Here are a few shots from Chicago area, this will give you some samples. Also, be sure to check the virtual tour.

VR Tour (Flash) To move from panorama to panorama look for the pulsing black circles.

This year’s photo trip yielded some interesting backgrounds (and foregrounds as well) like those shipyards and lakes. I had a lot of fun with the model taking these shots and so was the case for all the nearby fishermen. One of them actually pulled a point and shoot, talking about competition…
Anyway I hope you enjoy these shots as much as I did taking them.

This post is with few panoramas and normal shots from Chicago and Varna area. Pictures are taken at various times within the last one year. Cameras involved are Canon XTi, 5D and Bronica ETRSi. From Chicago we have panoramas from the bridges over Chicago river, a view from Hancock Tower, downtown morning view and an HDR attempt. I’m stressing that it is attempt, as I feel HDR is interesting but will require a bit more time to master well. For really cool HDR work visit Rosita’s site in the links section. From Bulgaria I have view of Varna bay, Tulenovo and Kara Dere panoramas. Enjoy!

The other night I wanted to try some film flash photography. I loaded my Bronica with some Kodak TMAX we made a small photo session in my home studio. As I don’t have a flash meter I used my Canon 5D to judge the exposure by. Interestingly all of my film shots came out better than the digital ones or at least I like them better. Here are the top picks.

Last summer on my trip to BG I took some photo opportunities that came along. I was fortunate to get to shoot with some other photographers and models. In reality this helped me to get a feel of what’s possible in both open and indoor spaces.